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* ClothingDamage: Jack's entire robe gets damaged during the fighting.
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'''Jack and the Smackback'''
'''Episode numeral:''' XVI
'''Original air date:''' 3/15/02 ''(produced in 2001)''
'''Episode numeral:''' XVI
'''Original air date:''' 3/15/02 ''(produced in 2001)''
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* WeaksauseWeakness: The humongous sumo wrestler is completely defeated by being tickled.
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* WeaksauseWeakness: The humongous sumo wrestler is completely defeated by being tickled.
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* AngryAnimalisticGrowl: Before the fight with Gordo, Jack first spots his silhouette in the shadows, letting out a menacing growl like a big cat.
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* AllOfThem: After Jack defeats three of the Dome's champions in a row, the game master decrees that all the remaining champions will fight him at once. In this case, 'all of them' means 'six.'
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* AntiClimacticUnmasking: After sawing through the helmet of a huge cyborg opponent, Jack [[spoiler: comes face-to-face with a pitiful looking fish like creature, begging to be put out of its misery]]. This is also what causes Jack to realize, how close he came to becoming a killer.
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* AntiClimacticUnmasking: After sawing through the helmet of a huge cyborg opponent, Jack [[spoiler: comes face-to-face with a pitiful looking fish like creature, begging to be put out of its misery]].misery. This is also what causes Jack to realize, how close he came to becoming a killer.
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Jack comes dangerously close to this in his second fight, after he cuts off his opponent's cybernetic arms with the latter's own weapons and almost kills him, [[spoiler: to see his opponent is just a pathetic little aquatic creature underneath his amour]] and having a HeelRealization.
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Jack comes dangerously close to this in his second fight, after he cuts off his opponent's cybernetic arms with the latter's own weapons and almost kills him, [[spoiler: to see his opponent is just a pathetic little aquatic creature underneath his amour]] amour and having a HeelRealization.
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* ClothingDamage: Jack's entire robe gets damaged during the fighting.
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* TakeTheThirdOption: In his third match Jack manages to survive without harming his opponent, by ''tickling'' him into submission, as an act defiance towards the announcer. Unfortunately, said announcer remedies this by having ''six'' champions attack Jack at once in the fourth match, forcing him to have to fight back to defend himself.
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* TakeTheThirdOption: TakeAThirdOption: In his third match Jack manages to survive without harming his opponent, by ''tickling'' him into submission, as an act defiance towards the announcer. Unfortunately, said announcer remedies this by having ''six'' champions attack Jack at once in the fourth match, forcing him to have to fight back to defend himself.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Gordo's voice and appearance are modeled after [[Wrestling/RandySavage Randy "Macho Man" Savage]].[[note]]Interestingly, the man himself was a guest star in the second episode of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory''.[[/note]]
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Gordo's voice and appearance are modeled after [[Wrestling/RandySavage Randy "Macho Man" Savage]].[[note]]Interestingly, the man himself was a guest star in the second episode of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory''.[[/note]]
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* AntiClimacticUnmasking: After sawing through the helmet of a huge cyborg opponent, Jack [[spoiler: comes face-to-face with a pitiful looking fish like creature, begging to be put out of its misery]]. This is also what causes Jack to realize, how close he came to becoming a killer.
* BoisterousBruiser: Jack's first two opponents are this.
* {{Cyborg}}: Jack's second opponent is this, conveniently allowing Jack to dismember him without causing any lasting damage.
* TheDogBitesBack:
** After spending the episode making Jack and the other slaves participate in his GladiatorGames, the game's announcer winds up face to face with a ''very'' pissed off Jack, holding his sword to his neck, before the latter tells him to set the rest of the slaves free. He wisely obliges.
** The robotic slaver who's spent the episode whipping Jack and the other slaves, gets sliced to pieces by Jack, on his way out.
* {{Cyborg}}: Jack's second opponent is this, conveniently allowing Jack to dismember him without causing any lasting damage.
* TheDogBitesBack:
** After spending the episode making Jack and the other slaves participate in his GladiatorGames, the game's announcer winds up face to face with a ''very'' pissed off Jack, holding his sword to his neck, before the latter tells him to set the rest of the slaves free. He wisely obliges.
** The robotic slaver who's spent the episode whipping Jack and the other slaves, gets sliced to pieces by Jack, on his way out.
* GiantMook:
** Jack's second opponent's ''legs'' are taller than Jack.
** His third opponent is a '''gigantic''' sumo wrestler.
** Jack's second opponent's ''legs'' are taller than Jack.
** His third opponent is a '''gigantic''' sumo wrestler.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Jack comes dangerously close to this in his second fight, after he cuts off his opponent's cybernetic arms with the latter's own weapons and almost kills him, [[spoiler: to see his opponent is just a pathetic little aquatic creature underneath his amour]] and having a HeelRealization.
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* ShutUpHannibal: Inverted. See talking is a free action below.
* TakeTheThirdOption: In his third match Jack manages to survive without harming his opponent, by ''tickling'' him into submission, as an act defiance towards the announcer. Unfortunately, said announcer remedies this by having ''six'' champions attack Jack at once in the fourth match, forcing him to have to fight back to defend himself.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Played with for laughs, after Gordo, Jack's first opponent goes into a long BadassBoast instead of fighting immediately, but when Jack tries to criticize him for this, ''Jack'' [[TalkToTheFist gets punched mid sentence.]]
* TragicVillain: Implied with Jack's opponents, who were all likely innocent people press ganged into becoming killers, like Jack almost became.
* YouExclamation: Jack's last words to one of the (robotic) slavedrivers.drivers, who has spent the episode whipping him and the other slaves for any minor show of disobedience and even while ''setting them free'', before Jack slices his head off.
* TakeTheThirdOption: In his third match Jack manages to survive without harming his opponent, by ''tickling'' him into submission, as an act defiance towards the announcer. Unfortunately, said announcer remedies this by having ''six'' champions attack Jack at once in the fourth match, forcing him to have to fight back to defend himself.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Played with for laughs, after Gordo, Jack's first opponent goes into a long BadassBoast instead of fighting immediately, but when Jack tries to criticize him for this, ''Jack'' [[TalkToTheFist gets punched mid sentence.]]
* TragicVillain: Implied with Jack's opponents, who were all likely innocent people press ganged into becoming killers, like Jack almost became.
* YouExclamation: Jack's last words to one of the (robotic) slave
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Gordo's voice and appearance are modeled after [[Wrestling/RandySavage Randy "Macho Man" Savage]]. [[note]]Interestingly, the man himself was a guest star in the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory''.[[note]]
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* SeriesContinuityError: A minor one. Jack's topknot hair is shown to be held up by a ribbon in this episode rather than a pin, simply so he'll have something to [[ItMakesSenseInContext tickle his opponent with]].
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* YouExclamation: Jack's last words to one of the slave drivers.
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Jack gets kidnapped and enslaved. He's taken away to an arena, where he's forced to fight in gladiatorial combat for cheap entertainment.
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* BloodSport: Big time. Like the thunder-dome, two men are supposed to enter with only one man leaving. Thankfully, our hero Jack would never go so far as to finish a wounded opponent with no desire left to fight.
* FinishHim: What the crowd constantly chants and desires after every fight. [[TheHero Jack being Jack,]] doesn't oblige.
* GladiatorGames: The whole episode revolves around Jack being captured and made to fight in a giant arena of death against other enslaved fighters until he can regain his sword.
* InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath: Every warrior in the arena is a slave and forced to fight for the amusement of an audience. The guys fighting are not brutalizing each other by choice.
* MadeASlave: All of the contestants fighting in the arena are NOT there by choice.
* FinishHim: What the crowd constantly chants and desires after every fight. [[TheHero Jack being Jack,]] doesn't oblige.
* GladiatorGames: The whole episode revolves around Jack being captured and made to fight in a giant arena of death against other enslaved fighters until he can regain his sword.
* InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath: Every warrior in the arena is a slave and forced to fight for the amusement of an audience. The guys fighting are not brutalizing each other by choice.
* MadeASlave: All of the contestants fighting in the arena are NOT there by choice.
